The display in the sky last week awed me. I sat on my porch with a friend and listened to the thunder peal overhead – at least the house wasn’t shaking. The lightening that followed was spectacular! Some of it arced across the sky. That is the safe kind. It stays in the heavens. And then came the kind that struck its way in jagged streaks to the earth. That made me wonder where it was striking! And glad that it wasn’t over my house.
We sat and watched the show for a couple hours. I read in books about how the characters feel the crackle in the air and, yep, we did. It rumbled and roared around us on all sides. We tracked one storm from one side of the house to the other and then again as it moved off into the distance. Some of the lightening above us (probably good that we could not see where the forks were pointed on those!) lit up the sky for a few seconds and strobed the trees. Spooky.
This series of storms reminded me of another series of storms a couple years ago. That show lasted from 7PM-11PM one night. It got scary enough that the house DID shake and, as much as I love to sit out and watch thunder and lightning storms, it chased me inside.
It’s a wonder we did not lose our electricity either time, though my candles were ready.
When I was a little kid, I remember asking where the thunder comes from. I heard that there are elves in the sky bowling. You laugh, but I believed it for a long time. Those elves could really throw those bowling balls and hit some superb strikes, so that we could hear them all the way down here. Such fantasies to explain away complicated weather patterns (or other situations) to a child.
Why is it that we are so fascinated by such spectacles? Is it because these demonstrations are so far above anything we can accomplish that all we can do is stand (or sit) in awe while they happen? There just are some intervals when we humans are totally helpless and at the mercy of the elements.
Or is that God? One more way to show He is the All Powerful One. Lest we forget.
ELOHIM – The All Powerful One; Creator.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The Earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light” and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness” Genesis 1:1-4.
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